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It's basically a matter of what you do or don't want. For myself, a laser guide on a drill press would not be very important at all and something I could, and do, live without. Pretty much the same answer for the Radial DP. YMMV.

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For repetitive work, what's going to be important is the jig you build to ensure the ease of duplication. In other words, a fence to make the back and forth (width) the same on each plunge, and a registration system that will make the side to side even. A lazer is a nifty thing to have, but I've not used one on a DP. There are several after-market lazer add-ons, but I find that careful work to line up the first plunge on a repetitive operation is easy enough and as accurate as needs be. The new DP's coming out have lots of nifty options, including lazers and digital speed readouts and lights and such. Handy things to have, but IMO they aren't necessary. I have a chart near the DP that tells me the speed requirements of different bits in different materials, and I just adjust the belts to match. I don't need a digital readout to tell me I have the right speed! Although, I think there's now a DP out there that lets you dial in the speed a bit without having to change belts. Now that would be handy.

I put it all back together better than before. There\'s lots of leftover parts.